Cheetham v. Ferreira

This is a bill in equity to set aside, on the ground of alleged fraud, a bill of sale of the respondent’s rug manufacturing business and the promissory note and personal property mortgage given by complainants as part consideration therefor, and for other incidental relief. After a hearing in the superior court on bill, answer and evidence, a final decree was entered granting the prayers for relief. The cause is before us on the respondent’s appeal from that decree.

According to the evidence, the complainants Joseph C. Cheetham and Walter P. Rivers, Jr. are brothers-in-law and neither of them…